Disruptive Innovation - SEPA for Corporates

8 Easy Ways For Corporates To LOOK Innovative 3

Mar

17

2016

I was re-reading the post 11 Powerful Corporate Innovation Truths recently, where the CB Insights Chief Anand Sanwal talks about 8 Simple Ways to Look More Innovative. Its a brilliant piece and I get that its a bit of fun, but i thought i would delve deeper into the 8 highlighted methods and see if there really ...

12 Payments Trends from Payments UK Worth Reading 1

Mar

15

2016

Over the weekend i was reading the Payments UK World Class Payments report highlighting payments trends that are shaping how consumers around the world make payments. The report focuses on different payment methods in the UK and provides some interesting statistical comparisons with payment systems and payment processes around the world. The report puts the ...

The UK Financial Regulator on Fintech Innovation

Mar

10

2016

In the The Top Payments News Stories in February, 2016 post i highlighted a speech by Christopher Woolard – the UK Financial Regulator (FCA: Financial Conduct Authority) director of Strategy and Competition. The speech was delivered at the FCA event on FinTech in the UK. Given that the UK is home to some of the hottest ...

An Analysis of Fintech Startups and Banks by McKinsey 1

Mar

8

2016

Are fintech startups going to eat the banks breakfast? There is unprecedented coverage around fintech (financial-technology) startups and the gauntlet they have thrown down to the banks. Sometimes it is hard to make sense of it all. The fintech startups clearly offer something unique and banks recognise that the world around us is changing and ...

What Is Blockchain in 6 Awesome Infographics 14

Feb

26

2016

If the blockchain frenzy and the hype surrounding it is anything to go by, blockchain is set to revolutionise everything from the way in which we make payments to the way in which we drink beer. I may have made that last bit up – but you get the idea that in and amongst the ...

I Needed To Send Money To India – This Is What I Did… 4

Feb

23

2016

I got a call over the weekend from my Father, who is currently visiting India asking me to do a money transfer to India. It should be the other way around, right? Wtf?!? Anyway, I had no idea where to start so started investigating the options to send money to India. Since it was Sunday ...

The Future of Fintech According to Deutsche Bank 4

Feb

16

2016

One of the Fintech reports doing the rounds right now is that by Deutsche Bank, titled “FinTech 2.0: Creating new opportunities through Strategic Alliance”. There has been quite a lot of noise about the Deutsche Bank Fintech 2.0 paper across the social media spectrum, so i thought i better check it out. In short, Deutsche ...

4 CEOs and the IMF MD On The Transformation of Finance

Feb

9

2016

In the post ’21 Most Popular Tweets from the World Economic Forum’ I highlight some of the most popular themes from the 2016 Davos conference. As i researched the post it revealed that one of those most talked about debates for people in the finance space was a panel discussion titled “The Transformation of Finance”. ...

11 Powerful Corporate Innovation Truths by CB Insights 5

Feb

3

2016

Many of us subscribe to newsletters with good intentions to learn about this, that and the other. If you’re like me though, you dont read half of the newsletters that you have subscribed to! One newsletter that bucks this trend is that from CB Insights. The team provide a pretty cool and very readable analysis ...

The Future of Payments in 4 Amazing Infographics

Jan

28

2016

There is an incredible spotlight right now on the future of payments. The focus on technology, fintech, blockchain and the Uber effect on financial services is culminating in some crazy, and some more mainstream payments trends. There are loads of interesting articles out there, but sometimes its just so much nicer to see the key payments ...